Rosh K Mathews's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Question about Database Mirroring and Possibly NLB

  OK since my company really would not prefer to spend the money for Windows 2003 Enterprise and MS SQL 2005 Enterprise I was thinking about this idea... Server1 - W2K3 Std - SQL2005 Std - Primary Server2 - W2K3 Std - SQL2005 Std - Mirror Server3 - W2K3 Std - SQL2005 Std - Witness Server4 - W2K3 Std - SQL2005 Std - Processing OK So we have Server1 & Server2 doing the Database Mirroring. Then I have Server3 as the Witness to say who is the Primary and so forth. Now Server4 I thinking to us to create jobs that will run on a Schedule to pull data from our Ticketing system and import it into Server1 & Server2 (Yes this is a Datawarehouse).. So what I am wondering... We really wish to not have to change our connections to the DB wit ...Show All

• Visual C# Register

  Hi. I want to make a registration programme that takes windows key, not the serial no. Beacause I want to know if the programme is moved to oneother pc. How can read the windows key with c# Also I want to write and read from the windows register. How I will do it On reading and writing to the register, the following help topic might be a good place to start, if you are looking for code samples. The C# code listings on the following page should give you some clues. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.win32.registry.aspx ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System bissubscribe or Event Toaster?

  Hello all, I have a question concerning the bissubscribe and/or the Event Toaster. Current Solution: When a build is generated at 4h00am a perl script located in the <target>...</target> gets launched with the following instruction: <Exec Command="path_to_perl_script" IgnoreExitCode="true"/> This worked great until recently...anyhow...The problem with this approach is that, for each project we have, we create a new branch and with this branch we create 2 new Build Types: One Integration and the other Release. Now I need to manually add this instruction in the .target file. I would like to change that. In fact I would like to remove this instruction and move on with something more useful. Here is ...Show All

• Windows Forms Click Once Configuration File

  Hi, I am developing a smart client that is connecting to a database directly for now and want to put it on a CD that can deploy the files on a server. During the deployment, I want to set some application settings on the smart client, like setting the database server name and so forth. I don't want to do this on the client side. Is there a way to do this. Please let me know. Thanks!! Don't check for the xml file everytime, just check when it is installed or upgraded with the following code ApplicationDeployment dep = Application.CurrentDeployment; if (dep.IsFirstRun) { //TODO: do the check since this part of the code runs only if it is initial install or any upgrades } I am lost on ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How to get working folder for a user?

  Hello, I'm a bit confused on how workspaces work. I can create a workspace and work with it perfectly, but what I need to do is have a way of knowing what is the default working folder of a workspace of a user. How can I do this I have also found it is very useful to use templates as Richard suggest (especially if your workspace mappings are complicated). You may wish to have a look at Workspace Sidekick ; it provides UI functionality similar to command line for creation of workspaces based on template workspace definition. Hope that helps. Regards, Eugene   ...Show All

• Visual C# Directory.GetFiles does not return files that have non-English names

  As the subject implies, I'm trying to use Directory.GetFiles from within C# to grab all of the files in my directory. I have a few Chinese and Japanese files in there that GetFiles does not return. Is there some property that I need to set so that it will return these files Any help would be much appreciated. foreach (string d in Directory.GetDirectories("C:\\myfiles")) { foreach (string f in Directory.GetFiles(d, "*.exe")) { foundFiles.Add(f); } } aur0ra wrote: foreach (string d in Directory.GetDirectories("C:\\myfiles")) { foreach (string f in Directory.GetFiles(d, "*.exe")) { foundFiles.Add(f); } } First your outer loop will get d ...Show All

• SQL Server problem with SSIS package

  Hi there, I have a weird problem with SSIS package. Package is deployed and save on SQLServer2k5. It runs no problem if I start from Integration services. It fails every time when it is scheduled as a job. The error message is: The package execution failed. The step failed. I will appreciate any advice. Thanks a lot. ruk_walled wrote: how can i check if this sql agent is running ihave this error when running my package after deploying it Error: 0xC0202009 at Package, Connection manager "Presup Dev sql_prov": An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E4D. An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client" Hresult: 0x80040E4D ...Show All

• Visual Basic Connecting to data base with visual studio & sqlexpress

  Can anyone tell me why I can't seem to see my sqlexpress data bases I am totaly at a lose This seems like the most basic procces ! When using the sql express and visual basic express systems the IDE can only see databases that are installed under the default instance that sql express installs. This is installed as .\SQLEXPRESS if you have the sql express instance installed as anything else the VBE IDE will not be able to see it. ...Show All

• Windows Forms Text invisible in textbox

  I have a text box to which I'm sending strings to output, but I notice that the text box displays blank and all the text is invisible. How do I make the strings visible / Here's the code of my Form1 #pragma once #include "test.h" namespace test { using namespace System; using namespace System::ComponentModel; using namespace System::Collections; using namespace System::Windows::Forms; using namespace System::Data; using namespace System::Drawing; /// <summary> /// Summary for Form1 /// /// WARNING: If you change the name of this class, you will need to change the /// 'Resource File Name' property for the mana ...Show All

• Visual Basic Problems with timers and object reference

  Hi everybody, In a form I created a timer. Then from a code file I want to work with this timer, how can I do this, I get an error "Reference to a non-shared member requires an object reference. How can I refere to this timer from outside the form thankyou very much!!! alba On Your Form: Private mTimer as New Timer Public Property mTimer as Timer get return mTimer end get set (value as timer) mtimer = value end set end property In your code: dim frm as new YourForm frm.Timer = ... that what you mean ...Show All

• Visual C# Visual Studio 2005 - PILE OF ***!

  Hi, Although .NET 2.0 has brought ,any great additions to the .NET family, the IDE for me is the worst part of the experience. 1. The IDE is terribly slow... much slower than it should be. 2. The IDE seems full of bugs. These two problems do not make a good productivity combination. I do not believe Visual Studio 2005 is suitable for enterprise development, where you typically work on large scale solutions consisting of hundreds of projects. The IDE simply chokes on large solutions. Intellisense comes to a grinding halt and solution level configuration changes, such as setting debug/release mode take minutes (2minutes or more per click). The number of crashes of the IDE per day is also pretty high. We have started recordi ...Show All

• Visual Basic String without terminator "

  Hi there, I was using an array of chars to take chars from a serial port buffer. But, when I do a cast to a string, for some strange reason, my string becomes something like string="haskjdh Without the last " !! I think this is really strange, did it happen to any of you P.S. Now I use the ReadExisting method that returns a string directly, but I really curious about the reason for this strange error :-) Thx Code: Dim buf(100) As Char If (Me.SerialPort1.BytesToRead > 0 And Me.SerialPort1.BytesToRead > 100) Then Me.SerialPort1.Read(buf, 0, 100) ElseIf (Me.SerialPort1.BytesToRead > 0) Then Me.SerialPort1.Read(buf, 0, Me.SerialPort1.BytesToRead) End If dim st as string=buf ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. XNA & noob programmer != success?

  I am way confused, In my new issues of both OXM magazine and Game Informer there are articles regaling the use of XNA to build your own 360 games, (albeit in the future) but no harm in building now and transffering to 360 when they open that option up. My question is this, I am fairly new to c++ only, I dl'd c#express, (even though I hae VS 2005 PRO...) and installed XNA and am lost. My confusion stems from both articles saying XNA is designed for ease of use by people without any programming knowledge. It says it is built around a simple interface using largely mouse clicks and drop down menus,(Game Informer, November 2006 issue#163, page 55) but where I have seen many posts here by people directly saying that XNA is a toolkit specifical ...Show All

• Windows Forms Using Makecert for signing and publishing a production app

  Hi, In the help it says makecert is used to create test certificates. My question is certificate be used to publich a production app with an expriation date well into the future. This app is used internal to our company. Thanks I meant to say can the certificate generated with makecert be used to sign and publish an internal production application. I want to do this to get around the expiration problem. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions opening a user selected file with excel from a vb app

  Im writing a front end in VBExpress, and I am having trouble with the following The user selects a file to "analyse" Openfildialog1.filename () I want to pass this file name to Excel and have it open it automatically..... I can open excel independent from any file using "shell" But I dont know how to pass the selected file as the file to open... I know its probably easy, but Im stuck, and cant find any information anywhere Thx Its modifying it a little Dim oXL As Excel.Application ' Start Excel and get Application object. oXL = CreateObject( "Excel.Application" ) oXL.Visible = True oXL.Workbooks.Open( OpenFileDialog1 ...Show All